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Fanfare 2025 Annotations
There’s nothing like a good library haul! Here’s mine, following the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine issue-to-press date. It’s the issue that begins our hundred-and-second year and contains all the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards speeches along with Fanfare, our annual annotated “best of” list that Notes from the Horn...
Curating The Art of Grace Lin
Hung, left, and Lin stand in front of a gate that mimics Chinatown entryways. Photo courtesy of Melissa Hung. In the pages of Grace Lin’s books, young protagonists might spend the day with their families building kites to fly. Or, they might journey through a mythical world where dragons talk....
Table of Contents: November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine
Cover from The Giving Flower by Alda P. Dobbs. Illustration © 2025 by Emily Mendoza. Features Curating The Art of Grace Lin by Melissa Hung A look at an exhibit on view at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Won't You Miss the Polar Bears? by Martha Meyer Examining the...
Why the Hell Is Everyone Sleeping on Flowcharts?: Informational Picture Books Up Close
Today on Calling Caldecott, a conversation between Elisa Gall and Jonathan Hunt about informational picture books and the Caldecott Award. (This is an entry in their "why-the-hell" Calling Caldecott series. Previous posts include discussions about the Caldecott and holiday books; photography; board books; the Newbery Award; "didactic intent"; folklore; and...
Preview November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine
Cover art by Emily Mendoza from The Giving Flower written by Alda P. Dobbs. Melissa Hung on curating The Art of Grace Lin for The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Martha Meyer examines the Blueberry Awards Committee’s anti-anxiety criteria for nature and climate books. A Publisher’s Perspective: Jason Low...
Week in Review, September 29th-October 3rd
This week on hbook.com... From the September/October 2025 Horn Book Magazine: The Writer's Page: The Impossibility of Writing Board Books by Rachel G. Payne Calling Caldecott: Your Farm | Your Forest | Your Island Let's Be Bees Out of the Box: November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine...
Your Farm | Your Forest | Your Island
Could an original board book ever win a Caldecott? This blog has contemplated this question, most notably in 2018 (“All A-Board: Why the Hell Hasn't a Board Book Won the Caldecott!?”) when Elisa Gall and Jonathan Hunt lamented that Llamaphones by French resident Janik Coat was not eligible and wondered...
The Writer's Page: The Impossibility of Writing Board Books
I started writing books for very young children in anger. A strange admission, I know. I was receiving a wobbly stack of board books to review for Kirkus each month, and I often vented about how developmentally inappropriate many were. I got holiday titles that read like extra-thick greeting cards...
Editorial: What Do YOU Think? (September/October 2025)
I’m generally a fan of ambiguous stories. As satisfying as it can be to have narrative closure, or to reread for the hundredth time a book you know is a favorite and won’t suddenly shift out from under you, it can also be weirdly comforting to reach the conclusion of...
Table of Contents: September/October 2025 Horn Book Magazine
Cover from The House That Floated. © 2025 by Guojing, published by Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books. Features An Important Job by Mac Barnett The author’s National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature inauguration speech. Columns Editorial What Do YOU Think? by Elissa Gershowitz...
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